Arjun Ayyappan, a recent Cypress College graduate, participated in the 2024 Stanford Law Scholars Institute and will be transferring to Stanford as an undergraduate student in the fall. Through SLSI, Ayyappan spent the last week of June on the SLS campus at a residential and learning experience led... by esteemed SLS faculty. The group of 20 scholars participated in a variety of activities, workshops, networking events, and more to help them prepare for academic life at a law school. Read more about Ayyappan's SLSI experience through the link below: https://stanford.io/4d55Xog

"It's a really extraordinary decision that reverses what has been viewed as obvious and commonsensical by courts and lawyers for five decades," said David Sklansky, the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, about Judge Cannon dropping the classified documents case for a recent Stanford ...Legal episode. Listen in at the link below.

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SLS Professor Robert Weisberg discusses New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez's bribery, fraud, and extortion conviction charges in a recent SLS Legal Aggregate Q&A.

"Menendez and his wife received things of great value in exchange for him engaging in actions which lay within ...his power... Very serious felonies. Prison aside, they will likely quickly lead to his removal from the Senate, by resignation or force," said Professor Weisberg. Learn more about the case at the link below.

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"To reverse Chevron is to put Congress back in the driver's seat and to say, things are not going to happen unless you make them happen. And maybe that is the message that Congress needs," said Michael McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law at SLS, for What ...Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein in "The Courts Strike Back Against the Bureaucracy." Listen to the episode at the link below.

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Allen Weiner, SLS Senior Lecturer in Law, and Bailey Ulbricht (JD '22), Executive Director at the Stanford Humanitarian Project, wrote an article "Humanitarian Notification in Gaza is Broken: How to Document and Respond When Things Go Wrong" for Just Security.

"More ...needs to be done to address these deficiencies that leave humanitarians vulnerable. A centralized incident report portal should be launched by an intergovernmental entity for all notifying humanitarians to formally report when they are struck in any conflict. This could help track incidents and elucidate where things are going wrong," said Ulbricht and Weiner in their paper.

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This spring, Debra Satz, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Paul Brest, professor emeritus and interim dean at SLS, taught a class titled, PHIL 3: Democracy and Disagreement. The class brought in scholars with different viewpoints to discuss a range of issues.

“Some of ...the issues [covered in the course] were not merely two-sided,” Brest said. “Many were multifaceted. The goal of the class was to listen to another position, to look for its strengths as well as its weaknesses, and to acknowledge your own position.”

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During the week of June 24, Stanford Law School (SLS) welcomed the third cohort of 20 college students to the law school’s Stanford Law Scholars Institute (SLSI), a program designed to provide support and training to college undergraduates who want to explore the opportunities and benefits of a ...legal career. While on the Stanford campus, the 2024 scholars took part in a variety of activities from receiving guidance on law school applications to meeting with leading practitioners, faculty, and SLS students.

The SLSI program consists of a week at Stanford as well as ongoing support and coaching as the scholars prepare to apply to law school. SLSI is co-led and founded by Diane T. Chin, SLS’s former Associate Dean for Public Service and Public Interest Law and Faye Deal, Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid. Read more about SLSI at the link below.

Photo Credit: Christine Baker

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According to a new blog post "How will AI Impact Racial Disparities in Education?" written by Hoang Pham, Tanvi Kohli, Emily Olick Llano, Imani Nokuri, and Anya Weinstock at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, "AI algorithms may exacerbate racial disparities in education when ...developers input historical data into the technology that replicate pre-existing biases that the model is trained to believe are accurate." Read more at the link below.

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"I think it was important for us to humanize people, which shouldn’t be necessary, but somehow seems perpetually necessary when we’re talking about immigration. I think one thing that it’s important to stress is that the individuals that we were speaking to in this context are people ...with long periods of time living in the United States and deep ties to the United States," said Jennifer Chacón, the Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law, in a recent Stanford Legal episode titled, "American Immigration Failure and How the Law Might Develop."

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Meet Sherwood Sheen, a JD student in Stanford Law School’s class of 2024. “I’m twenty-nine years old, and I had the best time of my life here at SLS. I would gladly be a 4L here if professors would let me,” said Sheen about his SLS experience.